2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 13: Elite Sport 1

8 Jun 2022, 11:00

Description

Chair: Ansgar Thiel
Room: 7E02, Building HZM Ground Floor

41. Sport Careers of Footballers with a Refugee Background: A Socialisation Theoretical Analysis

Enrico Michelini

08/06/2022, 11:00

Objectives
Against the background of the recent European ‘refugee crisis’ and its long-term consequences, this project investigates the research question ‘What do sport biographies of refugee professional footballers look like?’.
Methods
To assess this question, eight competitive footballers with a refugee background and two football experts were interviewed via a teleconference. The video...

42. The autobiographical construction of an athlete’s career before and after a doping confession—a case study

Marcel Reinold

08/06/2022, 11:20

Objectives
Doping confessions constitute major crises for athletes. We know from communication studies that they regularly turn to different self-presentational strategies to reconstruct their spoilt identities (Yar 2014). However, little is known of how confessions affect and change the subjective construction of a sporting career as a whole.

Methods
Therefore, we conducted a case study...

43. But where did they go?

Arthur Hochedé, Williams Nuytens, Nicolas Blondel, Grégory Dupont

08/06/2022, 11:40

Given its popularity, it’s not surprising that football is of interest to scientific disciplines such as physiology, biomechanics or sociology.
In 20 years, the number (per year) of scientific publications has multiplied by 55. However, this growth is not necessarily accompanied by consideration of these scientific productions in the staffs of professional teams. Why is this so? Our research...

44. Analysis of precautionary savings practices of (former) professional football players

Torsten Schlesinger, Michael Barth, Werner Pitsch

08/06/2022, 12:00

The comparatively high salaries of professional football players during their active athletic career should allow them to accumulate an adequate level of precautionary savings for a financially autonomous post-sport career. However, not all players succeed in accumulating sustainable financial assets. Therefore, the question arises what forms of financial precaution do professional footballers...